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“With a new citywide partnership, Penn is helping senior-citizen immigrants educate their communities – by making videos. Penn’s department of Family Medicine and Community Health has joined in a partnership to improve the health care of Southeast Asian immigrants in Philadelphia, which has the largest Southeast Asian refugee population in Pennsylvania.
“A coalition of Philadelphia health-care providers, public broadcaster WHYY and the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition Inc. launched a partnership Wednesday aimed at overcoming language barriers that block the city’s Southeast Asian immigrant community from accessing preventive and other health services.”
“This project, which will feature immigrant Laotian and Vietnamese immigrants telling their stories on digital video created by Southeast Asian elders, is intended to encourage discussion on health disparities and communication barriers faced by immigrants, with a focus on the problem of high blood pressure. Partners are the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (SEAMAAC), University of Pennsylvania, WHYY public broadcasting, Thomas Jefferson University and Temple University.”
